right now i am on the birthright israel trip and boy is it intence. it is absolutely beautiful here but i keep on thinking about who was here before we came and settled the land. before i came to israel i was very against the idea of a jewish state but since i have been here i have learned more about the history. i think that it is so crazy that boats of jewish immigrants were turned away in so many countries. in many ways we had no where to go, we couldn't even return to our homes after the holocaust. anti-semitism didn't just end after world war II. i think that things are a lot more different now days and i feel safe calling myself a jew in north america. europe and the middle east are a different storey it seems. i was thinking about buying a star of david necklace but then i realized that if i wore it into palestine i would probabley get spit on. that is more complicated than just straight up anti-semitism though, as israel annexed around 780,000 palestinians from their homes and killed many innocent people. it is wierd because when ever i read about the creation of the jewish state i have always read them as TERRORISTS but here they think of them as revolutionaries. it is sad because before the creation of israel it seems that the middle east was very friendly to jews, especially compared to europe. anyways if anyone lives around here and wants to take me in i need a place to stay SOON so i would appreciate a couch to sleep on. if not hostels are cheap too, but i don't know if i can leave my bag there or what? anyways, that's all for now. peace out bredren.